Re: VMs: Re: Past reordering of the manuscript

[Elmar Vogt <elvogt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jacques Guy wrote:

> ... In the case of the herbal, and the pharmaceutical
> section, it IS a whole. Shuffle the folios to your heart's content,
> it won't make a difference for the decipherment.

Uhm... not necessarily so. Although I agree that it's very improbable and 
impracticable, it still isn't _impossible_ that you need the correct page 
order to decipher the manuscript.

The algorithm could have been for example:

1. plaintext letter, page 1 -> 1. ciphertext letter, page 1

2. plaintext letter, page 1 -> 1. ciphertext letter, page 2

3. plaintext letter, page 1 -> 1. ciphertext letter, page 3

and so on. Messing up the pages would in such a case (or in any other 
long-range transposition cipher) completely throw you off.

Cheers,

	Elmar

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